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Euhm, they intend to built, what?, 7 or 8 ships for Virgin and 0 for anyone else? Serial production doesn't come into play with those numbers. Besides, Scaled isn't a factory like the average autombile factory around the world. It simply isn't needed. And the investment for real serial production is extremely high.

I mean, look at that third video. There is absolutely nothing they can produce in series. A ferrar production line is more serialized. (with an s or z??)

Most here would probably say z, but s is also permissible, at least here in Europe ;)

The construction methods do not look much different than those used for normal aircraft to me. Aircraft are not produced on automated assembly lines like cars are, partly because the sales volume is too small and partly because they are too big to build that way (or at least airliners are too big). That is one of the reasons aircraft, even small reciprocating engine airplanes flown by private pilots, cost so much more than cars.

just check out the size of this thing Here




woo

Also has anyone seen:






Looking familiar perhaps.....

Remember these are decades old!

The Russian Myasishchev Design Bureau as modeled by aerospace scholar Alex Panchenko:

It’s an extreme makeover of the Russian Air Force’s 3M bomber (aka the “Bisonâ€

OOoohhhhh! That one looks orbital! Too bad it is just a model!